Until you’ve consumed all of the best College Football books, can you even claim to be a true fan?
- Football Outsiders Almanac 2019: The Essential Guide to the 2019 NFL and College Football Seasons (2019)
- College Football America 2019 Yearbook (2019)
- The 50 Best College Football Teams of All Time (2017)
- The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football (2014)
- College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy (2002)
- College Football Team Logos Coloring Book: This unique coloring book has the Logos of teams currently playing in Sun Belt, Mountain West, Mid – … special gift or present for any football fan. (2018)
- Season of Saturdays: A History of College Football in 14 Games (2015)
- When the Lions Roared: Joe Paterno and One of College Football’s Greatest Teams (2017)
- A More Perfect College Football Playoff: 2017-18 Season (2017)
- Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football (2016)
Football Outsiders Almanac 2019: The Essential Guide to the 2019 NFL and College Football Seasons (2019)
The most authoritative and innovative annual guide to both the NFL and college football is back for an all-new season with more cutting-edge statistical analysis, obsessive film study, and trademark humor.
College Football America 2019 Yearbook (2019)
The College Football America 2019 Yearbook is here! College Football America is the only preseason yearbook that includes information about EVERY COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM IN AMERICA and CANADA!
The 50 Best College Football Teams of All Time (2017)
College football’s history is rich and regionalized. You know your team’s history and maybe your conference’s, but our shared knowledge doesn’t go too far beyond Heisman winners and recent national champions. It’s time to change that. In The 50 Best* College Football Teams of All Time, Bill Connelly dives into the history and evolution of the sport, telling its story through 50 particularly interesting teams.
The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football (2014)
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year NCAA football is big business. Every Saturday millions of people file into massive stadiums or tune in on television as “athlete-students” give everything they’ve got to make their team a success. Billions of dollars now flow into the game. But what is the true cost? The players have no share in the oceans of money. And once the lights go down, the glitter doesn’t shine so brightly.
College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy (2002)
“In March [1892] Stanford and California had played the first college football game on the Pacific Coast in San Francisco The pregame activities included a noisy parade down streets bedecked with school colors.
College Football Team Logos Coloring Book: This unique coloring book has the Logos of teams currently playing in Sun Belt, Mountain West, Mid – … special gift or present for any football fan. (2018)
College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities.
Season of Saturdays: A History of College Football in 14 Games (2015)
From an award-winning sports journalist and college football expert: “A beautifully written mix of memoir and reportage that tracks college ball through fourteen key games, giving depth and meaning to all” (Sports Illustrated), now with a new Afterword about the first ever College Football Playoff.Every Saturday in the fall, it happens: On college campuses, in bars, at gatherings of fervent alumni, millions come together to watch a sport that inspires a uniquely American brand of
When the Lions Roared: Joe Paterno and One of College Football’s Greatest Teams (2017)
The 1982 Penn State national championship team was not only one of Joe Paterno’s best, it was one of the best teams college football has ever seen. In When the Lions Roared, Bill Contz, one of the squad's offensive linemen, details that special season and the experience of playing for a legendary coach.
A More Perfect College Football Playoff: 2017-18 Season (2017)
“The FBS covers 129 colleges which are divided between 10 conferences. But incredibly, only 3% of FBS programs qualify for the playoffs. The NFL has just 32 teams, and it qualifies 12 teams for its playoffs (37%). The NBA and the NHL qualify 53% of their teams for the playoff. Major League Baseball qualifies 26% of its teams for its playoff.
Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football (2016)
Two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Gilbert M.
Best College Football Books That Will Hook You
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The Hot Seat: A Year of Outrage, Pride, and Occasional Games of College Football
Author(s): Ben Mathis-Lilley
ID: 3409683, Publisher: PublicAffairs, Year: 2022, Size: 3 Mb, Format: epub
Five Laterals and a Trombone: Cal, Stanford, and the Wildest Finish in College Football History
Author(s): Tyler Bridges
ID: 3520203, Publisher: Triumph Books, Year: 2022, Size: 4 Mb, Format: epub
Out of the Pocket: Football, Fatherhood, and College GameDay Saturdays
Author(s): Kirk Herbstreit
ID: 3100346, Publisher: Atria Books, Year: 2021, Size: 21 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are truly record-breakers according to Chicago Tribune, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.